Von Tanger, Marokko, sind es nur 14 Kilometer bis zum spanischen Festland. Von hier aus versuchen viele Migranten mit dem…
#morocco #migration #refugees, European Union, Migration, refugeesPosts by Category: Background Reports
On 9 March, journalist-turned-activist, Itai Dzamara was abducted by five unidentified men at a barbershop near his Glen View, Harare…
Human Rights, Itai Dzamara, journalism, Justice, Robert Mugabe, ZimbabweJeden dritten oder vierten Sonntag im Monat trifft sich die Spoken Word Szene der kenianischen Hauptstadt Nairobi zu “Street Poetry…
Becky Wairimu, conscious spoken words, domestic violence, Dorphan, Dorphanage, Häusliche Gewalt, Kenya, Le Chatelier, Nairobi, poetry, sexuelle Gewalt, spoken words, street poetry
This article was originally written in Arabic by Omar Elhady and published in Al-Masry Al-Youm Newspaper on September 19, 2014….
Egypt, Human Rights, Ibrahim Bassem, Mostafa Alhosseiny Prize, Omar Elhady, refugees, social injustice
Das Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein präsentiert aktuell die Arbeiten von über 120 zeitgenössischen afrikanischen Künstler*innen und Designer*innen….
Ausstellung, Cyrus Kabiru, Daniel Koßmann, Design, Film, Fotografie, François Beaurain, Kunst, Making Africa, Making Africa - A Continent of Contemporary Design, Mode, Umlilo, Vitra Design Museum
By Prof. Ton Dietz A delegation of the ‘Africa in the World’ research group of the African Studies Centre in…
africa, African Studies Centre Leiden, Al-Jazeera, Development Aid, development cooperation, geopolitics, Qatar, Qatar Foundation, Sheikh Eid Bin Mohammad Al-Thani, the Netherlandss, Ton Dietz
The year 2014 marked fifty years of Malawi´s independence, twenty years of democracy and a return of local government councillors…
Chashgate, corruption, Malawi, Mutharika, Ostafrika, Peter Mutharika
by Lorenzo Fioramonti In the past few years, there has been much talk about “Africa rising”. In late 2011, The…
Africa rising, economy, GDP, Lorenzo Fiaoramonti
Ob nun als FreiwilligeR im Ausland oder als MigrantIn im Aufnahmeland – das Gefühl, „fremd“ zu sein, wird in vielen…
Fremdheit, Germany, Wissen
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zeigen, dass die in Schulbüchern vermittelten Inhalte rassistische und exotistische Afrikabilder reproduzieren. Ein Plädoyer für ambitionierte Lehrkräfte, gewohnte…
Education, eurocentrism, Germany, racism
This is the irony of being Kenyan. That we call ourselves a nation fighting terror for the sake of national…
Betty Waitherero, discrimination, East-Africa, Ethnic Profiling, Gikomba Market blast, Incredible Kenya, Journalists for Justice, Jubilee regime, Kenya, Kenyan Somali, refugees, security, Somali, terrorists
The annual Invisible Borders Road Trip embodies everything that this organisation is about: movement. The collective of artists from all…
art project, Bosnia, creative exchange, documentation, Emeka Okereke, global citizens, Invisible Boarders, painters, performance artists, photographers, Road Trip 2014, Sarajevo, TV crew, writers
In ihrer Regierungserklärung zu Beginn der neuen Legislaturperiode hat sich die deutsche Bundeskanzlerin nur indirekt zur Zukunft der europäisch-afrikanischen Beziehungen…
Afrika-Politik, Andreas Schockenhoff, Angela Merkel, Bundeskanzlerin, Bundeswehr, Deutschland, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Mali, Regierungserklärung, Wolfgang Gehrke, Zentralafrikanische Republik
Over the past few years the discussion about the traditional celebration of Sinterklaas in the Netherlands has increasingly become politicized….
Black Pete, blackfacing, Netherlands, racism, Sinterklaas, Zwarte Piet
L’un des procès les plus énigmatiques que l’Allemagne a connu depuis l’après-guerre, devra être réexaminé. Cet article est une chronologie…
Allemagne, francais, Oury Jalloh, Police, Sierra Leone
“Entführt, gequält, verkauft: Auf der ägyptischen Sinai-Halbinsel foltern Beduinen Flüchtlinge, um Lösegeld zu erpressen – von den Ärmsten der Armen….
Flüchtlinge, Fluchtrouten, Immigranten, Israel, Michael Obert, Sinai
The expansion of renewable energies has severe consequences for countries like Liberia where necessary raw materials are exploited.
Liberia, logging, renewable energies, Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor
In a report by the BBC News last year, Kenya’s permanent secretary for Information and Communication, Dr. Bitange Ndemo said…
Digital Africa, IT, Kenya, Moses Wasamu, Technology
Malawi is a booming mobile telecommunications market. From about 300.000 subscribers a decade ago, the subscription has rapidly grown to…
Airtel, Malawi, Mobile, Technology, TNM
We all knew it. We saw this coming in Haiti and talked about it in Egypt, when 5 Ushahidi maps…
elections, Kenya, monitoring
Malawi remains one of the poor countries in the world with majority of the country’s population living below the poverty…
Laut einer Pressemitteilung des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs in Den Haag wird die Anklage gegen den Kenianier Francis Muthaura zurückgenommen. Muthaura ist…
Francis Muthaura, IStGH, Kenia, Mwai Kibaki, Uhuru Kenyatta
About one week ago, civil servants probably did not expect the situation to escalate as it did during past Thursday…
airports, anti-Banda, Blantyre, civil servants, clashes, devalutation, economy, foreign Donors, government, Lilongwe, Malawi, protests, recession, wage strike
Warten im Wüstenwind. Kaum Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten. Trinkbares Wasser ist rar, die Essensrationen wurden zum Teil vor einem viertel Jahr eingestellt. Der…
Choucha, Libya, refugees, Tunesia, UNHCR, Voice of Choucha
With the decline of the Eurozone, the staggering growth rates of many African countries come to the fore. But closely…
CFA, CFA franc, Euro, Eurozone
The African Union is at the conclusive stages of fashioning an African cabotage regime that will ensure that only vessels…
AU, cabotage, European Union, fishing
In Egypt the assembly that was charged with crafting the county’s new constitution until January today hastily passed a draft,…
draft constitution, Egypt, Hossam El-Ghiryani, Morsi, Referendum
The coup d’état against Mali’s democratically elected government in march this year following the slide of the country’s north into…
Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, military, Niger, Sahara, Sahel, security, Somalia, terrorismDuring the past week observers could witness tremendous changes in the stability situation in the DR Congo’s North Kivu region….
Benjamin Mkapa, DRC, Frederick Chiluba, Goma, joint statement, Kampala, Kenya, Laurent Désiré Kabila, M23, military intervention, Monusco, North Kivu, Pasteur Bizimungu, Robert Mugabe, Rwanda, Sam Nujoma, Tanzania, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni
It was a film presentation following this year’s Afrikamera motto African woman on and behind the screen. On Friday evening,…
Afrikamera, Algeria, Angèle Diabang Brener, Berlin, cameroon, Cécile Mulombe, DRCongo, France, Karin Albou, Kenya, Nadia Rais, Pascale Obolo, Senegal, short films, TunisiaThe 2012/13 academic year at Chancellor College in Zomba, part of the University of Malawi, is delayed due to complications…
Chancellor College, Fight for Academic Freedom, Lilongwe, Malawi, protests, salary increase, State House, Strike, university fees, University of Malawi, Zomba
Selbst auf dem K’asuwa bissa, dem größten Markt und bedeutendsten Verkehrsknotenpunkt der Innenstadt Niameys, herrschte in den letzten Tagen außerordentliche…
Busstreik, Infrastruktur, Niamey, Niger, TaxistreikAs reported last month, Tanzania and Malawi were trying to find an agreement over the position of the water border…
border dispute, Lake Malawi, Malawi, TanzaniaDaily urban life in Limbe, Cameroon: The urban confrontation of fish and oil After two episodes from Cameroon’s Nkongsamba, Bafoussam…
Malawi’s current president Joyce Banda addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York for the first time…
General Assembly, Joyce Banda, Malawi, New York, president, speech, United Nations
Malawian journalist Terence Mwamlima investigates the actual presence of child labor in two market scenes in Malawi’s economic capital Blantyre….
Blantyre Market, Child labor, Limbe market, Malawi, rural areas, tea and tobacco estates, Terence Mwamlima, urban areas, urbanization
Yesterday UNICEF published, together with the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, its progress report on Child Survival claiming…
decrease, health, mortality rate, UN Inter-Agency Group, UN Millenium Goals, under 5 mortality rate, UNICEF(eufrika) – In den deutschen Medien werden Afrikaner auch heute noch gerne als triebgesteuert wahrgenommen und porträtiert. Ein aktuelles Beispiel…
Afrikabild, Faure Gnassingbé, Frauenbewegung, Media, Politics, Proteste, Sexismus, Togo, Wahlen, Westafrika
(eufrika) – With September being announced as first official Mbira Month, Zimbabwean musicians and artists throw a new light on…
cultural importance, curriculum, Mbira, Mbira Exhibition Online, Mbira Month, Zimbabwe(eufrika) – For over 50 years there has been a dispute over the border between Malawi and Tanzania. Attempts from…
border dispute, Dar es Salaam, International Court of Justice, Lake Malawi, Malawi, Mzuzu, oil exploration, Tanzania
What history hides behind the social composition of the Kivus? Episode IV: The impact of the strangers on local communities in…
Cholera, deforestation, diseases, DR Congo, drinking water, genocide, health care, history, housing, Katale, Kibumba, Mugunga, refugees, Rwanda, sanitation facilities, UNHCRWhat history hides behind the social composition of the Kivus? Episode III: The Rwandan Genocide and its significance for the…
Bahutu, Banyarwanda, Batutsi, DRC, extremists, FAR, Génocidaires, genocide, Habyarimana, Interahanwe, international community, KIVU-SERIES, North and South Kivu, Paul Kagame, refugees, RPF, Rwanda, UNHCRAgain, an Ebola outbreak is hitting Uganda, frightening patients and health care workers all over Uganda as it is spreading…
Ebola virus, Filoviridae family, Kampala, Kibaale District, UgandaTimveni is to become the first child-run TV-station worldwide. In Malawi, the project has now been granted a license to…
child and youth journalism, license, Lilly Omondi, Malawi, Plan Malawi, Plan Sweden, Timveni, TV station, UNICEFWhat history hides behind the social composition of the Kivus? Episode II: The Rwandan Revolution (Hutu rebellion in Rwanda in…
Belgian Congo, Bukavu, Goma, Gregoire Kayibanda, Hutu rebllion, Kinyarwanda speakers, Kivus, Luvungi, Mwami Charles Mutura Rudahigwa, Nyangezi, refugees, Ruanda-Urundi, Rwandan Revolution, Tutsi Council of Ritual ChiefsWhile the main attention was put on the actual preventive actions and the strategic positioning of UN forces of the…
DRC, Goma, helicopter attacks, M23, Monusco, North KivuGoma’s residents fear the rebels of the M23 movement. They are reported having seized several strategically important towns in the…
Bosco Ntaganda, CNDP, Desire Kamanzi, DRC, FARDC, Goma, ICC, Laurent Nkunda, M23 movement, peace agreement, Raymond Tshibanda, RPF, Thomas LubangaSince the outbreak last week, fierce fighting has been reported from the DRC’s North Kivu region. After rebel forces from…
DRC, fighting, Goma, M23 movement, Monusco, North Kivu, UNO
Dressed in colorful robes and uniforms, thousands of people marched through the streets of Amsterdam to the Oostpark to celebrate…
abolition of slavery, Amsterdam, Antilles, Dutch colonies, Keti Koti Festival, memory, Oostpark, Suriname, the chains are cut“Nyasa Times” reported the arrest of Malawi’s Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Alexius Nampota. Fiscal police units arrested him on…
abuse of office, Alexius Nampota, Anti Corruption Bureau Malawi, arrest, Blantyre, Commonwealth Network, fiscal police, Malawi, Office of the President and CabinetIn an extensive interview with the news channel Al Jazeera, Malawi’s new Hon. President Joyce Banda talks about the future…
Al-Jazeera, Joyce Banda, Malawi, Talk to Al Jazeera
It is not a totally new way of food production. Aquacultures were already used by several ancient populations for…
aquaculture, biodiversity, cameroon, Egypt, environmental protection, FAO, Kofi Annan, Malawi, Nigeria, overfishing, productivity, small scale farmers, Stavanger, sustainability, Uganda, World Business Conference on AquacultureAfrica’s Head of States were supposed to come together for the 19th AU Summit in Malawi’s capital city Lilongwe from…
19th AU Summit, Addis Ababa, arrest warrant, Ethiopia, foreign Donors, ICC, Joyce Banda, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Malawi, Omar al-Bashir, relief funds, SudanOfficials of the International Monetary Fund have visited Malawi from May 23 until June 6 2012. The mission came together…
Bingu wa Mutharika, boost, Commonwealth, dependence, ECF arrangement, economy, foreign Donors, IMF, Joyce Banda, Karmalesh Sharma, Lilongwe, London, Malawi, Queen Elizabeth II., SAPs, World Bank
Overfishing is a well known phenomenon we face all over the world. Whether salmon from the Atlantic,…
fingerlings, fisheries, fishing ban, Kenya, lake Naivasha, Ministry of Fisheries Development, restocking, TilapiaAn Egyptian court has sentenced the country’s late president Hosni Mubarak to life in prison. The judges found him…
After the devaluation of Malawi’s currency by the National Bank about two weeks ago, the launch of the new 1000…
De La Rue, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Dr. Perks Ligoya, Inkosi Ya Makhosi Gomani II, Inkosi ya Makhosi M’mbelwa, James Frederick Sangala, John Chilembwe, K100, K1000, K20, K200, K50, K500, Malawi, Malawi Kwacha, NAC, Nyasaland, Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM), Rhodesia, Rose ChibamboThe news reports of the last days in Malawi concerning the Shire-Zambezi Waterway are highly contradictory. While People’s Party (PP)…
African Development Bank, Armando Guebuza, Bingu wa Mutharika, compensation, Jerry Jana, Joyce Banda, Land Grabbing, Lilongwe, Malawi, Maputo, mozambique, Nsanje Inland Port, PP, Shire-Zambezi waterway, ZambiaHalf a year passed since Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir last came to Malawi. By then late president Bingu wa Mutharika…
arrest warrant, AU, AU-summit, Bingu wa Mutharika, ICC, Joyce Banda, Lilongwe, Malawi, MCC Programme, Omar al-Bashir, Rome Statute, Sudan
Lake Victoria, located in the East African Rift Valley, is one of the oldest lakes in the world and…
East African Rift Valley, European Union, fishing, food stock, illegal fishing methods, IUU-Fishing, Kenya, Lake Victoria, Lake Victoria Basin, LVEMP, Nile Perch, population growth, Smart Fish, Tanzania, Tilapia, UgandaTies between politics and fuel imports in the Southern African state of Malawi continue to determine the consumption of the…
Bingu wa Mutharika, fuel assistance, Joyce Banda, Lilongwe, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Malawi
ShipSpotting.com © Ibon Barandika Ugarte During the past month March, several African governments took a swipe against fishing vessels operating…
AMLEP, European Union, F/V DONIENE, Fisheries Agreement, Illegal fisheries, INPESCA, IUU Fisheries, Joint Maritime Committee, Liberia, mozambique, Nacala, NEPAD, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Spain, TV Sterenn, Txori Argi, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. NavyOn 5 February 2012, Nigerian leader of the Synagogue Church of All Nations Temitope Balogun Joshua (popularly known as T.B….
audience, Bingu wa Mutharika, death, Joyce Banda, Malawi, Michael Sata, prophecy, Robert Mugabe, statement, T.B. Joshua, Zambia, ZimbabweOn last weekend’s Saturday Malawi’s top Human Rights activist John Kapito got arrested in Lilongwe, accusations: Possession of guns, seditious…
arrest, Atupele Muluzi, Bingu wa Mutharika, Dave Chingwalu, Dr. Bakili Muluzi, forex, Geneva, Human Rights activist, illegal possession, International Coordinating Committee National Human Rights Institutions, John Kapito, Ken Ndanga, Malawi, Malawi Human Rights Commission, National Bank, Police, Switzerland, UNDP, United Democratic Front (UDF)Several media institutions have been accused of reporting too negatively about current developments in Malawi politics. Intentions were among others…
Alfred Ntonga, Anthony Kasunda, Bingu wa Mutharika, Blantyre Newspaper Limited (BNL), Brian Ligomeka, DPP Director of Youth, Frank Mwenefumbo, freedom of expression, freedom of information, Fuko, Health and Population Minister, Jean Kalirani, Lilongwe, Malawi, Malawian Constitution, MISA, MISA-Malawi, Nation Newspaper, Nation on Sunday, National Publication Limited (NPL), Nyasa Times, State House, The Weekend Nation, threatsLast Wednesday thousands of Kenyan public health care workers decided to end their 2 week strike after a meeting with…
Alfred Mutua, Kenya, Kenya Civil Servants Union, Kenya Union of Nurses, Khang'ati, MP Fred Outa, Nairobi, nurses, Parliamentary Committee on Health, public health sector, Raila Odinga, Robert Monda, sacking, Seth Sindano, StrikeLake Tanganyika is Africa’s second largest lake, providing fishing communities from all bordering countries with protein rich fish. Zambia is…
artisanal fishery, fish farms, Fusion Marine, industrial fishery, Kapenta, Lake Kariba, Lake Tanganyika, Prof. Carmelo Agius, Sub-Sahara Africa, Tilapa, Zambezi River, ZambiaThe words were dropped last Sunday in Thyolo district in the South of Malawi. President Bingu wa Mutharika ceremonially opened…
Bingu wa Mutharika, demonstrations, DPP, DPP Youth Cadets, economic crisis, Fergus Cochraine-Dyet, foreign Donors, forex, fuel shortage, Gomile-Chidyaonga, Great Britain, hate speech, HRCC, Human Rights groups, IMF, London, Malawi, NGOs, protests
In its ongoing series “African Dream” BBC News Africa portrays African entrepreneurs. This week it introduces Rwandan business man…
Business, East-Africa, Entrepreneur, Rwanda, timeIn October 2010 Nsanje Inland Port was ceremonially presented to the world. Zimbabwe’s Mugabe and Zambia’s then president Banda showed…
Bingu wa Mutharika, Fortunato Albrinho, Malawi, mozambique, Nsanje, Nsanje Inland Port, Shire River, Shire-Zambezi waterway, Zambezi RiverThe WHO, the UK Department for International Development, USAID, 13 pharmaceutical companies, like GlaxoSmithKline, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation…
bacterial infection, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, blinding trachoma, Chagas, GlaxoSmithKline, guinea worm, leprosy, lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis), Neglected Tropical Diseases, NTD, parasites, river blindness, schistosomiasis, sleeping sickness, soil transmitted helminthes (intestinal worms), UK Department for International Development, UN Millenium Goals, USAID, visceral leishmaniasis, WHO, Worldbank, worm infection
Sierra Leone’s fishing grounds are among the richest in West African waters. Thousands…
artisanal fishery, EJF, IUU-Fishery, JMC, ministry of fisheries and maritime resources, navy, Sierra Leone, VMSNew research, ‘Induced abortion: incidence and trends worldwide from 1995 to 2008′ , published by the Lancet Medical Journal online…
Guttmacher Institute, Lancet Medical Journal, maternal death, maternal health, UN Millenium Goals, Unsafe abortion, WHO
A report reveals close ties between former Liberian president Charles Taylor and the CIA. Taylor is currently awaiting verdict in…
Boston Globe, Charles Taylor, CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, International Crime Court, Liberia, Sierra Leone, spy, USA
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Göran Hydén, Julius Nyerere, Landwirtschaft, Sozialismus, Tanzania, Uhuru, Ujamaa, UnabhängigkeitBBC Africa as well as Al Jazeera reported about the opening of the polling stations in the Democratic Republic this…
Al-Jazeera, BBC Africa, DRC, polling stations, presidential electionsWith the launch of the Twinning Programme Brain Trust in South Africa, a new project of news-cooperation enters its next…
Alpha Media Holdings Zimbabwe, Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, BNL, Larry Kilman, Malawi, Malawi-Zimbabwe Executive Twinning Programme, Nation Publications Limited, Sida, WAN-IFRA, ZimbabweSeventeen years ago, after the Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana died in a crash of his airplane, Rwanda was haunted by…
Arusha, crimes against humanity, genocide, Gregory Ndahimana, ICTR, Kivumu district, RwandaAfter South Sudan’s official seperation from Sudan in this year’s July, both governments in Khartoum and Juba keep on accusing…
Blue Nile, Darfur, JEM, Juba, Khartoum, NCP, Obaid Murawah, Omar al-Bashir, SLA-AW, SLA-MM, South Kordofan, South Sudan, SPLM-N, SRF, SSLA, Sudan
Tuna was always a topic in the discussions between environmental activists, politicians and entrepreneurs. Tuna is one of the most…
Bluefin tuna, EU Fishery Commission, European Union, Gulf of Sirte, ICCAT, IUU-Fishery, Libya, Sea ShepherdSouthern Sudan’s struggle with new rebel groups after independence in this year’s July. From this year’s July on the African…
Juba, Khartoum, South Sudan, SSLAThirteen year old, rejected by her husband after a traumatic labour, Terefa is now living in a hut far away…
A walk to beautiful, Childbirth, Maternal mortality, Obstetric fistula, Obstructed labour, OF, United Nations Population FundMalaria is one of the most dangerous diseases, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) every 45 seconds a child…
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, GlaxoSmithKline, Malaria, MSP3, RTS, S, Vaccine, WHOSeit Wochen leidet Ostafrika unter der schlimmsten Dürre seit 60 Jahren. Am stärksten betroffen sind die Länder Somalia, Djibouti, Äthiopien…
Crisis, Dürre, East-Africa, Hunger, OstafrikaIn über 60 Ländern weltweit haben Kriege Landminen zurückgelassen, die auch lange nachdem Frieden eingekehrt ist, noch eine große Gefahr…
APOPO, Landminen, Mozambique, Ratten, TanzaniaMittwoch Morgen wusste niemand, ob es tatsächlich zu den im Voraus angekündigten regierungskritischen Demonstrationen in Malawi kommen würde. Doch schnell…
Bingu wa Mutharika, Blantyre, Demonstrationen, Lilongwe, Malawi, MzuzuEs ist genug für alle da, behaupten viele Experten. „Ein Fluss, zehn Länder, viele Probleme“ verkündet dagegen Die Zeit im…
anglo-ägyptischer Vertrag, Egypt, Landwirtschaft, Nil, Nile Basin Initiative, Staudamm, Stephan Roll, Sudan, Uganda, WasserBei Betrachtung des bestehenden Problems der illegalen Fischerei vor Somalias Küsten drängt sich die Frage auf, weshalb solche Aktivitäten immer…
Hoheitsrechte, Illegale Fischerei, Marine-Mission, Somalia, SouveränitätButhaina Ahmed Elnaiem ist eine Grenzgängerin. Wenn am 9. Juli die Teilung des Sudans vollzogen wird, entsteht nicht bloß der…
Buthaina Ahmed Elnaiem, Egypt, Juba, Kenia, Nil, Öl, Referendum, South Sudan, Sudan, UgandaGoodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, jüngst im Amt bestätigter Staatspräsident Nigerias, und UN-Generalsekretär Ban Ki-moon schmieden gemeinsame Pläne für die Bevölkerungsentwicklung…
Ban Ki-moon, Bevölkerungswachstum, Drei-Kinder-Politik, Geburtenkontrolle, Goodluck Jonathan, Jeffrey Sachs, Nigeria, UN
In Duynefontein an der südafrikanischen Kapküste steht das einzige Atomkraftwerk des afrikanischen Kontinents. Unweit der Metropole Kapstadt, liefert die staatliche…
Atomenergie, Namibia, Südafrika, UranMitglieder der ugandischen Oppositionspartei Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) fürchten um das Leben ihres Vorsitzenden Kizza Besigye. Das geht aus…
Besigye, Mao, Opposition, Otunni, Proteste, Uganda, Walk to WorkWährend die Proteste gegen steigende Benzin- und Lebensmittelkosten in Uganda ausgehend von der Hauptstadt Kampala allmählich auf andere Städte überspringen,…
Kizza Besigye, Nobert Mao, Protest, Uganda, Walk to WorkIn mehreren Städten Ugandas kam es erneut zu gewaltsamen Konfrontationen zwischen Unterstützern der Opposition und Polizeikräften. Das lose Organisationsbündnis „Forum…
Forum for Democratic Change, Protest, Uganda, Walk to WorkFünf Monate nach den Präsidentschaftswahlen in der Elfenbeinküste verschanzt sich Laurent Gbagbo mithilfe von angolanischen Soldaten in einem Bunker unter…
Elfenbeinküste, Gbagbo, Hintergrund, OuattaraSeit einigen Wochen schaut die Welt fasziniert auf die rasanten Entwicklungen in der arabischen Welt. Begeistert, aber auch besorgt, ob…
Egypt, Essam Sharaf, Mubarak, RevolutionAm Montag hat sich eine Gruppe von lesbischen Aktivistinnen mit Regierungsvertretern in Cape Town getroffen, um gegen sogenannte “korrigierende” Vergewaltigungen…
"corrective rape", Südafrika, VergewaltigungenIm Berliner Afrikahaus drängten sich am vergangenen Dienstag viele interessierte Zuhörer, um eine Antwort auf diese komplexe Frage zu erhalten….
Jacob Zuma, Politics, SüdafrikaNiemand zweifelt an der geographischen Zugehörigkeit Ägyptens oder Tunesiens zu Afrika. Die politischen Umstürze der letzten Wochen hingegen werden in…
African Revolution, Al-Jazeera, Algeria, Azad Essa, Egypt, Elfenbeinküste, Lybien, Maghreb, Tunesia, UgandaNachdem bereits in den vergangenen Tagen Berichte über das vorläufige Ergebnis des Referendums aus dem Januar um die Trennung des…
China, Kenia, Öl, Referendum, Sudan